Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana (PMKSY)
प्रधानमंत्री किसान संपदा योजना (पीएमकेएसवाई)
The Ministry of Food Processing Industries umbrella that gives grant-in-aid to entrepreneurs, FPOs and cooperatives to build cold chains, food processing units, agro-processing clusters, food-testing labs and irradiation units — so farm produce is stored, processed and sold at a better price.
- Total outlay (revised)
- ₹6,520 crore (15th Finance Commission cycle)
- Revised outlay approved
- 31 July 2025 (Union Cabinet)
- Grant-in-aid (general / special areas)
- 35% / 50% of eligible project cost
- What it funds
- Cold chain, processing units, clusters, testing labs, irradiation
- Who can apply
- Entrepreneurs, FPOs, cooperatives, SHGs, companies
- Implementing ministry
- Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI)
- Expected reach
- ~28.5 lakh farmers, ~5.44 lakh jobs
- Portal
- sampada-mofpi.gov.in
Quick Summary
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Quick Summary
Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana is the food-processing ministry's umbrella for turning raw farm produce into a stored, processed, better-priced product — the value that a farmer selling only raw crop never captures. It is not a scheme an individual farmer applies to for cash. It gives grant-in-aid to entrepreneurs, FPOs, cooperatives, SHGs and companies that build the infrastructure between the field and the shelf: integrated cold chains (pack-houses, reefer vans, ripening and cold storage on one line), new or expanded food processing and preservation units, agro-processing clusters with common facilities, food-testing laboratories, and irradiation units that extend shelf life. The grant is typically 35% of eligible project cost in general areas and 50% in the North-Eastern, Himalayan and difficult areas, subject to component ceilings.
A farmer or FPO benefits by being the promoter of such a unit — a village-level cold store, a dal mill, a fruit-pulp line, a spice-grinding unit — or by supplying a nearby SAMPADA-funded processor under an assured backward linkage, which gives a steadier price than the open mandi. The scheme is run by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries and was extended, with a total outlay revised to ₹6,520 crore for the 15th Finance Commission cycle by the Union Cabinet on 31 July 2025, adding funds for 50 multi-product food irradiation units and 100 NABL-accredited food testing labs. Note this is a different scheme from PMKSY = Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (irrigation), already on this site — the names look alike, the schemes are not. Proposals go through the SAMPADA portal, sampada-mofpi.gov.in. The page ahead has the active components, the grant pattern and who can apply.
Overview
Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana — Scheme for Agro-Marine Processing and Development of Agro-Processing Clusters — is a Central Sector umbrella scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), first approved on 3 May 2017. It bundles several component schemes that fund infrastructure across the food value chain. It is not a direct-benefit scheme for individual farmers; the money is grant-in-aid to the promoters of processing and cold-chain infrastructure.
The active component schemes in the current cycle include Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure (pack-houses, pre-cooling, cold storage, reefer transport, ripening chambers and processing on an unbroken chain), Creation / Expansion of Food Processing and Preservation Capacities — the "Unit Scheme" that funds new or expanded processing lines — Infrastructure for Agro-Processing Clusters (common facilities plus 5+ processing units at one site), Food Safety and Quality Assurance Infrastructure (food-testing laboratories), and research and development in food processing. The grant-in-aid is generally 35% of eligible project cost in general areas and 50% in the North-Eastern states, Himalayan states, ITDP areas and Islands, subject to each component's ceiling. Component schemes such as Mega Food Park and Creation of Backward & Forward Linkages have been discontinued in the 15th Finance Commission cycle, with committed liabilities for sanctioned projects honoured.
The Union Cabinet on 31 July 2025 approved a revised total outlay of ₹6,520 crore for the scheme in the 15th Finance Commission cycle — an additional ₹1,920 crore — including ₹1,000 crore towards 50 multi-product food irradiation units under the cold-chain component and support for 100 NABL-accredited food testing laboratories, with about ₹920 crore for other components. The scheme is expected to leverage around ₹11,095.93 crore of investment, benefit roughly 28,49,945 farmers and generate about 5,44,432 direct and indirect jobs. Proposals are submitted and tracked on the SAMPADA portal (sampada-mofpi.gov.in). This scheme is distinct from Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY), the irrigation scheme, despite the shared short form.
Scheme highlights
An unbroken cold chain
The Integrated Cold Chain component funds a pack-house, pre-cooling, cold storage, reefer vans and ripening chambers on one connected line — so a perishable crop is kept cold from the field to the buyer.
Processing and preservation units
The Unit Scheme funds new or expanded food processing lines — a dal mill, a fruit-pulp or juice line, a spice-grinding unit, a millet-processing plant — the step that adds value to a raw crop.
Agro-processing clusters
A cluster brings common infrastructure (roads, power, cold storage, effluent treatment, warehousing) plus at least five processing units to one site, so a producer group can process at scale.
Food-testing labs and irradiation
The revised cycle funds 100 NABL-accredited food testing laboratories and 50 multi-product food irradiation units that extend shelf life — infrastructure that opens up export and institutional markets.
A real grant, not a loan
Grant-in-aid of 35% of eligible project cost in general areas and 50% in the North-Eastern, Himalayan, ITDP and Island areas, within each component's ceiling, reduces the promoter's own capital burden.
Backward linkage to the farm
SAMPADA-funded units are expected to source from farmers and FPOs under assured backward-linkage arrangements, giving suppliers a steadier, contracted price than the open mandi.
Major components
States pick from these based on local priorities — each has its own eligibility and application process, detailed on its own page where one exists.
Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure
Grant for a connected chain of pack-house, pre-cooling, cold storage, reefer transport, ripening chambers and processing — including, in the revised cycle, 50 multi-product food irradiation units.
FPOs, cooperatives and entrepreneurs handling fruit, vegetables, dairy, meat and marine produce
Creation / Expansion of Food Processing & Preservation Capacities (Unit Scheme)
Grant to set up a new processing or preservation unit, or expand an existing one — milling, pulping, grinding, drying, packaging and similar lines.
Individual entrepreneurs, farmer groups and companies setting up a processing line
Infrastructure for Agro-Processing Clusters
Grant for common infrastructure and at least five processing units at a single site, developed by a Special Purpose Vehicle of entrepreneurs, cooperatives or producer bodies.
Groups of processors, FPOs and industry bodies developing a shared cluster
Food Safety & Quality Assurance Infrastructure
Grant to set up or upgrade food testing laboratories — including 100 NABL-accredited labs in the revised cycle — and quality-assurance systems like HACCP and ISO certification.
State bodies, industry associations and processors needing accredited testing
What you get
A better price than raw sale
Processing a crop into dal, flour, pulp, ground spice or a packaged product captures margin that selling the raw grain or fruit into the mandi never does.
Less waste of perishables
A cold chain and processing capacity mean a glut of tomato, mango, potato or milk is stored or processed instead of dumped when the mandi cannot absorb it.
A contracted, steadier outlet
Supplying a SAMPADA-funded processor under a backward-linkage arrangement gives a farmer or FPO a more predictable price and offtake than the daily mandi rate.
Access to bigger markets
Graded, tested, shelf-stable and packaged output from funded infrastructure can be sold to institutional buyers, retail chains and export markets that raw produce cannot reach.
Who is eligible
Both lists come from the notified operational guidelines — meeting the left column is not enough if anything in the right column applies to your family.
You qualify if
- Farmer Producer Organisations, farmer producer companies, cooperatives and cooperative federations setting up processing or cold-chain infrastructure
- Self-Help Groups, individual entrepreneurs, partnership and proprietary firms, and private and public limited companies in food processing
- Special Purpose Vehicles formed by a group of entrepreneurs or producer bodies to develop an agro-processing cluster
- State agencies, State-government undertakings, industry associations and R&D institutions, for the relevant components
Excluded — even with land
- An individual farmer expecting a cash transfer — SAMPADA gives grant-in-aid to infrastructure promoters, not per-farmer income support
- A project with no defined food-processing, preservation or cold-chain infrastructure output
- Applying outside the SAMPADA portal or outside a component's Expression of Interest window
- Component schemes that have been discontinued in the 15th Finance Commission cycle (such as Mega Food Park) — only sanctioned projects with committed liability continue
Where this scheme applies
A central scheme with pan-India coverage — open to eligible farmers in every State and Union Territory.
Documents you need
Have these ready before you start — the online form takes ten minutes when nothing is missing.
Detailed Project Report
Setting out the processing or cold-chain capacity, technology, product line, project cost, means of finance and the backward linkage to farmers.
Entity registration
Registration certificate for the FPO, cooperative, company, firm or SPV, plus board resolution authorising the application.
Term loan sanction / means of finance
Bank term-loan sanction letter or evidence of the promoter's equity and other finance for the project.
Land, licences and clearances
Land title or lease for the site, and applicable licences such as FSSAI registration and pollution-control consent.
How to apply, step by step
The same six steps apply whether you register yourself online or sit down at a CSC.
- 1
Watch for the component Expression of Interest
MoFPI issues an Expression of Interest for each component on the SAMPADA portal. Prepare within that window.
- 2
Prepare a Detailed Project Report
Draw up the DPR for the cold chain, processing unit, cluster or lab, including the tie-up with farmers or FPOs for raw material.
- 3
Arrange finance and apply online
Get the bank term loan sanctioned or firm up the means of finance, then submit the application and DPR on sampada-mofpi.gov.in.
- 4
Appraisal and approval
MoFPI's technical committee appraises the proposal; an Inter-Ministerial Approval Committee sanctions the grant-in-aid.
- 5
Build, and draw the grant in instalments
Implement the project; the grant is released against milestones and a final claim after commercial operation, verified by inspection.
Important dates
Scheme approved
3 May 2017
As Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana under MoFPI
Extended in 15th FC cycle
Up to 31 March 2026
With a provision of committed liability for sanctioned projects
Revised outlay approved
31 July 2025
Union Cabinet; total ₹6,520 crore (additional ₹1,920 crore) for the 15th Finance Commission cycle
Facts last checked
6 September 2026
Against the MoFPI PMKSY scheme page (mofpi.gov.in), the 31 July 2025 Cabinet decision as reported by PIB/DD News, and the SAMPADA portal
Check your eligibility
Straight from the notified criteria. Nothing you enter leaves your phone.
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This checker applies the criteria in the official operational guidelines, but it is guidance — only the state government’s verification against the land records is final.
Downloads
Official documents only — everything below is hosted on the government's own servers.
Official links & helpline
Bookmark the portal itself — no third-party site can release, block or speed up a payment.
- Ministry of Food Processing Industries — PMKSYmofpi.gov.in — the umbrella scheme page with all component guidelines
- SAMPADA portalsampada-mofpi.gov.in — submit and track proposals and grant claims for every component
- MoFPI announcementsmofpi.gov.in — Expressions of Interest and revised scheme guidelines
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as PMKSY, the irrigation scheme?
No. The short form "PMKSY" is shared, but Pradhan Mantri Kisan SAMPADA Yojana is a food-processing scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, while Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana is an irrigation scheme of the Ministry of Agriculture / Jal Shakti. They are entirely different schemes.
Can an individual farmer get money directly from this scheme?
No. SAMPADA gives grant-in-aid to entrepreneurs, FPOs, cooperatives, SHGs and companies that build processing and cold-chain infrastructure. A farmer benefits by being a promoter of such a unit, or by supplying a SAMPADA-funded processor under a backward-linkage arrangement.
What does the grant cover, and how much is it?
Grant-in-aid of generally 35% of eligible project cost in general areas and 50% in the North-Eastern, Himalayan, ITDP and Island areas, within each component's ceiling. The rest is met from a bank term loan and promoter equity.
Which components are still active?
Integrated Cold Chain and Value Addition Infrastructure, Creation / Expansion of Food Processing and Preservation Capacities (the Unit Scheme), Infrastructure for Agro-Processing Clusters, Food Safety and Quality Assurance Infrastructure, and R&D. Mega Food Park and Creation of Backward & Forward Linkages have been discontinued, with committed liabilities honoured.
What changed on 31 July 2025?
The Union Cabinet approved a revised total outlay of ₹6,520 crore for the 15th Finance Commission cycle — an additional ₹1,920 crore — including ₹1,000 crore for 50 multi-product food irradiation units and support for 100 NABL-accredited food testing laboratories.
How does a farmer or FPO actually benefit?
By setting up a village-level cold store, dal mill, pulp line or spice unit as the promoter, or by supplying raw produce to a nearby SAMPADA-funded processor under an assured backward linkage, which gives a steadier, contracted price than the daily mandi rate.
How do I apply?
Watch for a component Expression of Interest on the SAMPADA portal, prepare a Detailed Project Report including the farmer/FPO raw-material tie-up, arrange a bank term loan, and submit online at sampada-mofpi.gov.in. Proposals are appraised by MoFPI and sanctioned by an Inter-Ministerial Approval Committee.
Still have questions?
The FAQs above cover the common ones. For anything about your specific application, the ministry helpline undefined is the authoritative answer — and we are happy to point you in the right direction.